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Union Expects 15,000 to 20,000 G.M. Workers to Take Buyouts - New York Times

The head of the United Automobile Workers union added that General Motors would replace nearly all of the workers with lower-paid employees.

Some Cities Are Spared the Slide in Housing - New York Times

The real estate market these days is a tale of two Americas, and one of them is not doing too badly.

Bleak New Batch of Data on Economy - New York Times

New reports showed rising prices of imported goods, struggling manufacturing and an erosion in consumer confidence.

Kiribati: Vast Marine Reserve Created - New York Times

The tiny island nation of Kiribati, the former Gilbert Islands, declared the world’s largest marine protected area, a 164,200-square-mile ocean wilderness.

In Remote Valley, a Grim Redefinition of ‘Fishing’ - New York Times

The once abundant shrimp of the legendary Rio Grande in Jamaica have become scarce and what can still be caught are often poisoned, a result of man’s impact on the natural world.

Identical twins not as identical as believed

PhysOrg news: Identical twins not as identical as believed

Metabolic syndrome linked to cold tolerance

PhysOrg news: Metabolic syndrome linked to cold tolerance

Researchers study widespread areas of low oxygen off northwest coast

PhysOrg news: Researchers study widespread areas of low oxygen off northwest coast

Warming waters may make Antarctica hospitable to sharks, with potentially disastrous consequences

PhysOrg news: Warming waters may make Antarctica hospitable to sharks, with potentially disastrous consequences

Past greenhouse warming events provide clues to what the future may hold

PhysOrg news: Past greenhouse warming events provide clues to what the future may hold

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Brain waves pattern themselves after rhythms of nature

PhysOrg news: Brain waves pattern themselves after rhythms of nature

Malfunctioning Mitochondria Could Cause Heart Disease | Wired Science from Wired.com

Scientists say they've found a new explanation -- and a perhaps a path to a new cure -- for heart disease. In a study published today in Science, researchers led

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22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor | Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical

17 arrested after youths riot in Denmark - USATODAY.com

Bands of youths set fire to cars and trash bins overnight in a fourth consecutive night of vandalism mostly in immigrant neighborhoods of the Danish capital, police said.

Kids' commissioner calls for ban on Mosquito, ultrasonic anti-teen device - Times Online

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Sat-navs 'damage 2,000 bridges per year' - Telegraph

Get the latest UK news and World news from the Telegraph. Your source for sport news, business news, travel news, motoring news and property news

How believing can be seeing: Study shows how context dictates what we believe we see

PhysOrg news: How believing can be seeing: Study shows how context dictates what we believe we see

As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises - New York Times

The federal government, contractually obligated to bury the waste, is at least 20 years behind schedule.

In France, the Heads No Longer Roll - New York Times

In the wake of the Société Générale scandal, France’s business aristocracy finds itself in a place it never wants to be: the spotlight.

Novel mathematical model predicts new wave of drug-resistant HIV infections in San Francisco

PhysOrg news: Novel mathematical model predicts new wave of drug-resistant HIV infections in San Francisco

Biofuel: Gene scientists find secret to oil yield from corn

PhysOrg news: Biofuel: Gene scientists find secret to oil yield from corn

A Spoonful of Immunity? - New York Times

Restaurant menus in Los Angeles are marrying the broader commercial movement of “functional” foods.

Statistics in the Outfield | Wired Science from Wired.com

Long before fantasy leagues and Moneyball, baseball players, managers and fans embraced statistics. Of course, common stats like batting or earned run average are relatively easy to quantify because there

The Other Carbon: Reducing Black Carbon's Role in Global Warming | Wired Science from Wired.com

BOSTON, Ma - Carbon dioxide, the most well-known greenhouse gas, isn't actually a toxic substance. In fact, plants, within some limits, like and use the stuff. The problem,as we know,

2 million Chinese kicked out of homes for Olympics - Sunday Mirror

EXCLUSIVE SUNDAY Mirror INVESTIGATES Families are driven from their homes for sake of China Olympics Houses razed to make way for £200m stadium and city parks 40,000 jailed and tortured for protesting about losing everything

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Kosovo MPs proclaim independence

Kosovo's parliament declares independence from Serbia, to jubilation in Pristina but angry protests in Belgrade.

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Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet | Technology | The Observer

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, is refusing to remove medieval artistic depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.

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Why are thousands of bats dying in New York? - Science- msnbc.com

Bats in New York and Vermont are mysteriously dying off by the thousands, often with a white ring of fungus around their noses, and scientists in hazmat suits are crawling into dank caves to find out why.

Liveblog on The Future of the Global Food System | Wired Science from Wired.com

BOSTON, Ma - What is the future of the global food system? In this speech delivered at the AAAS annual meeting, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, a Cornell professor of food, argues that

Like ants, humans are easily led - Telegraph

Telegraph Earth is your source for environmental and green news and environmental and green issues, with information on climate change, global warming, pollution, green living and recycling, and all other environment issues.

Human Culture Subject To Natural Selection, Study Shows

The process of natural selection can act on human culture as well as on genes, a new study finds. Scientists have shown for the first time that cultural traits affecting survival and reproduction evolve at a different rate than other cultural attributes. Speeded or slowed rates of evolution typically indicate the action of natural selection in analyses of the human genome.

Japanese Roots | Human Evolution | DISCOVER Magazine

Just who are the Japanese? Where did they come from and when?. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.